Making of an Author: Book 1

This is the first book of Mari Sandoz's sister's major effort to round up and publish the letters of Mari Sandoz for the six years before her first book, OLD JULES, was published in 1935. The material of which this is a part ,was originally published in four separate volumes starting in 1972. does not have the slipcase. Signed by Mari Sandoz. ( may need more detailed research by those 0rganizations dedicated to her memory and works.)

On June 5, 1950, Mari Sandoz walked across the stage of the Nebraska Coliseum during the annual commencement ceremony of the University of Nebraska. Before a crowd of well over 2,000, she shook Chancellor Rueben Gustavson's hand and proudly accepted an honorary Doctorate of Literature.The degree stated, "Mari Susette Sandoz, distinguished Nebraska historian, biographer, novelist, story writer." For the 54-year-old Sandoz, the honor not only assuaged her academic insecurities—she had neither high school diploma nor formal college degree—but it validated twenty years of extensive research and publication on Nebraska and the Great Plains.